Bicycle Tag of bike

The allotments are called Pudding Mill Allotments:

http://www.mgs-puddingmill.org/

I know this, riding down this way on Sunday if I don't get under-cut by then...

Old: a neolithic burial chamber in Wick Woodland. Took me a while to find it but it was a nice ride.

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New: one for the nerds. Bonus points if you know the name of this type of crossing. If you don't, don't let it get you Down.

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Old: Junction of Downs Road and Queensdown Road, E5. I don't know whether they've invented a name for this 'type' of crossing, but it's a very bad and hazardous design. Also, once more there's no real progress--this junction has long been filtered in the wrong place (east of the junction) when it should be filtered completely to create a public square. A very disappointing scheme.

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New: Bugger, brought the wrong kind of bike! The big fat clue in the picture should conceivably be enough to help you locate it, but do complain if it doesn't work for you. Also a warning: Don't get mown down by rampant, erm, trail bikers when getting this tag.

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Somehow I thought this would be taken by Oliver.
I'm sure I saw a name for that junction on Twitter recently but I couldn't find it on John Burke's feed.
No idea where the new one is.

Such a mad creation by Hackney Council. Like the zebra crossing for cyclists on Richmond Road they invented a few years ago.

Hackney didn't invent that (and riders don't ride on the zebra bit). It's called a 'tiger crossing' and has been used in many places, although it took years to be approved in the UK. In this location, it's not much of an improvement over what was there before (a very unorthodox crossing with 'elephant's feet' road markings), but it's wider and makes more of a fuss than the previous narrower, cycling-only crossing, which means that drivers are more likely to stop (it's harder for them to nip across because it looks as if they're more likely to block a part of it).

While that design is appropriate in Richmond Road, it isn't the best that could be achieved there. That would be a proper junction with zebra crossings on either side instead of the cycle crossing being a secondary alignment and only one zebra crossing.

Hope you find the exact one mystery tagger. If you didn't I can PM you the post number :)

:-)

Old: Lee Valley Velopark/Velodrome seen from the MTB trail

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Ha. Great minds think alike?

New: A school for narcissists.

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Bruce in action, feverishly trying to triangulate the location!

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Haha, is that how you found him?

Great work, Bruce.

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Very appropriate narcissist.

We were just leaving the site when I looked behind and saw the unmistakable image of someone checking his phone with what was in front of him. I returned and asked the gentleman if he was tagging. He said he was and asked if I had. I said that we had found it but wasn't really planning on doing another one. But I left him to find it himself so as not to spoil the fun. On our return about 15 mins later, he whizzed past again and it turned out that he hadn't actually found it, so we all went back to the exact spot and had a good old catch up. Nice to see you again Bruce!

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Brilliant scooter tag.

That was kind of how I imagined the tag might work--I thought the landmark in the background would be enough to give the general area, along with heavy hints as to it being on the MTB trail, and then the prospective tagger could have a bit of fun zeroing in on it.

Glad nobody got hit. When I was there, there was one very fast MTB rider just caning it round the berms.

the prospective tagger could have a bit of fun zeroing in on it.

I spent some time tramping through the undergrowth and emerging onto trails. Several times, cyclists on more appropriate bikes stopped to ask me if I was OK because I was clearly a fish out of water. If Oatsy hadn't turned up and started an increasingly less subtle game of "colder, warmer" I might have spent more time looking for it than I did riding out there.

Ha, oh. Hope you had some fun all the same! Meeting oat44 like that does rather seem like Mary encountering the angel.

Even though the one factor in why this game has stuck around is probably StreetView, I think every once in a while we have to do something that's not on SV.

I only saw three people when I was there, a couple who were going along the trail quite slowly, and the aforementioned fast rider. Like your encounters, they all looked at me a bit as if I was lost, although I tried to do my best impression of purposeful walking. Obviously, LFGSS has always been about using bikes inappropriate for the purpose, so we did our bit.

Out of the most recent 5 only 1 - mine - is on street view. I wondered if I had tagzumped you on the Wick one, Oliver, or did you go back that way with the mountain bike trail in mind?

No, you 'zumped me on the Bow Creek one (I think I was there before you), but that was OK, as I bimbled around for another couple of hours after I got it and did one in Central London. I didn't try for Wick Woodland, as Beagle had said he might go to get it.

The mountain bike trail was a spur-of-the-moment idea.

It's true that quite a few tags recently were off the beaten track.